Title :
Control of seeding of raman forward scattering and injection of electrons in a self-modulated laser wakefield accelerator by a copropagating prepulse
Author :
Chien, T.-Y. ; Chen, W.-T. ; Lee, C.-H. ; Lin, J.-Y. ; Wang, J. ; Chen, S.-Y.
Author_Institution :
Graduate Inst. of Electro-Optical Eng., Nat. Taiwan Univ., Taipei
Abstract :
Optically controlled seeding of Raman forward scattering and electron injection in a self-modulated laser wakefield accelerator is achieved by introducing a copropagating prepulse with proper timing. Seeding mechanisms are identified from the experimental data
Keywords :
Raman spectra; high-speed optical techniques; optical modulation; plasma light propagation; plasma production by laser; wakefield accelerators; Raman forward scattering; copropagating prepulse; electron injection; optically controlled seeding; self-modulated laser wakefield accelerator;
Conference_Titel :
Quantum Electronics Conference, 2004. (IQEC). International
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-778-4
